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W.. H. Woon e e. RICHMOND. APPARATUS FOR VSAEPARATING LIQUIDS PROM GASES` AND STEAM.

Ne. 294,300. Patented Feb. 26, 1884'.

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WILLIAM H. VOOD AND GEORGE RICHMOND, NEW YORK, N. Y.

vAPPARATUS FOR SEPARATING LIQUIDS FROM GASES AND STEAM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,300,.dated February 26, 1884.

l Application filed February 20, 1883. Renewed January 2A6,18 S4. (No iuodel.)

Figure 1 is a sectional view of our apparatus .as adapted for use on refrigerating-machines and for other purposes, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the apparatus as applied to a steam-boiler.

Slmllar letters of reference indicate corre# sponding parts in both the figures.

Our invention has relation to means for preventing liquids from escaping with or being carried Iover by the gas or vapor generated from or contained in and mechanically mixed with the liquid. When a gas or vapor is drawn off from aliquid,it generally happens, as is well known, that a portion of the liquid is carried over with the gas or vapor, as in the priming of the cylinders of steam-engines by water carried from the boiler into the cylinder with the steam. In the gas-pumps of refrigerating machines, where the gas or vapor is pumped through a liquid seal, the same difficulty occurs, part of the liquid being carried forward by the gas orl vapor. The cause of this inconvenience is found in the fact that the thin film of liquid which adheres to the sides of the steam-dome of the boiler or inner walls of the pump-cylinder, as the case may be, (owing to capillary attractiom) is dislodged and swept forward by the pressure of the steam or vapor as it escapes in a strong, sweeping current through the outlet, and by breaking this current and diverting it in such amanner that itwill have to pass across a thin knife-'edge before the outlet can be reached the steamor vapor-current may be divested completely of the'atoms of water or other liquids with which it is charged. It is to this class of de vices to which our apparatus relates; and the novelty consists in the detailed construction and arrangement of the same, as hereinafter .more fully described and claimed.

Reference being had to Fig. l of the ldrawings, the letters c c denote two shells, which are bolted together, so as to fornia chamber or receiver, A, preferably cylindrical in shape.

Both the parts a' are made with flanged necks b b, to which the inlet and outlet pipes shown at c and c are respectively bolted. d is a hollow cone or inverted funnel, which is fixed in' the upper neck, b, by' a-ferrule, e, or by other suitable means. The lower enlarged end of this funnel is iinished off to a knifeedge, f, while its top is of cylindrical shape to t into the flanged ne'ck or outlet b.

In Fig. 2 the arrangement Vof parts is substantially the same, with the difference only that we dispense with the chamber A, the funnel d beingvinserted into the outlet of the steam-chamber B of the boiler B and held in place by the collar or ferrule e.

The operation Yof the apparatus is as follows: "The lm of liquid adhering to the walls of the steam-chamber B', or (as in the case of the gas-pump of a refrigerating-machine) to the walls of the pump-cylinder, is swept, with the current of steam or vapor, along the sides ofthe 'steam-chamber B or receiver A, asthe case may be, but cannot enter the outlet on account of the funnel d. Any liquid which, in the form of a lm, forms upon or is swept upon the outside of the funnel itself will, by its gravity, descend the same anddrip off from the knife-edge f, while 4the steam or gas, deprived of the liquid with which it was mixed, will escape in its pure state through the outlet-pipe c,ras indicated by the arrows.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesr l. The combination of the receiver A, having flanged necks ,b b, inlet-'pipe c', inverted funnel d, having knifeedge f, means for securing the funnel in the upper iianged neck of the receiver, and outlet-pipe c, substantially as and for the purpose shown and specified.

shown and set forth.

emmmo In testimony that Weelaim the foregoing as our own We have hereunto nixed oln1 slgnntures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM I-I. Woon. GEORGE RICHMOND.

Witnesses:

'WIL S. DoLIzEY, HENRY E. KLUGH. 

